Flotsam And Jetsam just announced the "Forbidden Territories of the World" European headliner tour, also featuring Dew-Scented (Metal Blade Records) & Izegrim (Listenable Records), presented by District 19 & Rock Hard.

The metal rampage will kick off on Thursday the 23rd of March at Plutonium in Strasskirchen, Germany, and will continue throughout Europe before concluding at Vienna Metal Meeting in Austria on Saturday, April 8th.

These spring European dates with Dew-Scented will occur after a fall North American tour alongside Helstar. Details on that trek are available here. More...

German thrashers Dew-Scented released a new music video for the track "Ruptured Perpetually." The song was lifted from the band's latest album "Intermination," which was issued at the tail end of June via Prosthetic Records.

The band will tour across Europe this October with Angelus Apatrida, No Return & Heboidophrenie. Confirmed dates are:

Former The Haunted frontman Peter Dolving has posted a lengthy rant on facebook sharing his views on the metal music industry, slamming a few record labels, label owners and A&R product managers (including Century Media's Leif Jensen), and Nuclear Blast.

Some excerpts:

"What I have come to see is that; 'The music business”'– one that could really be an amazing thing, with potential for true positive influence in society, is a mess..... .... instead – I found disgust, unwillingness and ignorance. Narcissists, and even psychopaths in far too many positions of power. People who don´t HAVE abstract conceptual understanding, and the necessary skill sets to act in way that is good for the companies they run or work for."

"After 10 years, I accepted. Leif Jensen is a fat bitter German with a slowly increasing liver and kidney disease, just like so many of his particular ilk.

"At The Gates Tompa is up for the job, he´s smart and well-phrased. But he really doesn´t stand for anything. He´s the epitiome of all the German metal labels love; a harmless white middle class academic, with a shitty self image, great education and great taste in music."

German thrash staples Dew-Scented will release tenth album, “Intermination,” on June 30th in North America via Prosthetic Records. Featuring vicious artwork by Gustavo Sazes, the album consists of 13 evolving and twisting tracks, with a new song coming online today. Check out "Affect Gravity" below.

Vocalist Leif Jensen says, "'Affect Gravity' is probably a bit of an unusual track for Dew-Scented and not only because of the talkbox at the beginning. It’s got quite some melodic riffing and a very dark twist, but it’s always dynamic and heavy. It turned out to be one of my personal faves on the album and I look forward to playing it live too!”

Drummer Koen Herfst added, “I tried to really emphasize the aggressiveness of the song by playing pretty much straightforward and really loud in the parts that ask for it. I love the way the toms turned out in the mix, which makes the parts that lead into the verses really heavy. Halfway through the song I do a groove inspired by Derek Roddy, which is basically a blast-beat on my second snare combined with a back beat on my main snare. After that I do a really heavy and basic groove which breaks things open in the guitar solo.”

Dew-Scented just checked in with the following announcement about wrapping up work on a new full-length album:

"Dew-Scented’s 10th (!) studio album is completed! The record is entitled 'Intermination' and sounds more focused and determined than ever before.

"This time around we worked with Dan Swanö / Unisound Studio for the mix as well as with Gustavo Sazes / Abstrata.net for the artwork and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results we achieved.

"You can now check out the album's opening track “On A Collision Course” below. 'Intermination' will be released in June via Metal Blade Records in Europe on June 12th/15th and Prosthetic Records in North America on June 30th."

2013 was an eventful year for Dew-Scented, as the band released the special anniversary compilation “Insurgent,” toured Europe with Testament in April, played several festival events and then finished off by touring Europe again with Death Angel. Now the band is working on an upcoming album, checking in with the following update:

“2014 is scheduled to be a quieter year, since we are focusing on writing the follow-up album to 2012’s 'Icarus' release. We have gathered about eight really strong songs so far and are currently working on a couple more.

"The material is as relentless as you would expect it from Dew-Scented, but also shows different new elements in the mix, since everyone (Marvin, Rory, Joost and Koen) is bringing in ideas and writing contributions this time.

"As things look right now, we should be ready to start recordings around summer and are aiming at an early 2015 release date for the album. More news about that soon…

"In the meantime, Dew-Scented will obviously also be playing some selected live-dates throughout 2014: First off, we are heading to Japan together with our Metal Blade labelmates The Black Dahlia Murder and Fleshgod Apocalypse in April. This is the third time for us to visit Japan and a first since 2005’s Extreme The Dojo dates with High On Fire and Misery Signals. We truly look forward to meeting our faithful thrash brothers and sisters over there soon. It’s been too long! See a trailer clip by TBDM below. More...

Germany's Dew Scented has posted the following brief message online about gearing up to record a new album:

"Dew-Scented are currently working on new material for a next studio album that we intend to start recording in the spring 2014.

"We are super stoked about the new material we have gathered so far and can’t wait to continue writing! We will also be announcing some first festival dates for 2014 in the coming weeks, so stay tuned…"

With the release of their new cutthroat creation "The Dream Calls For Blood" just ten days ahead, the Bay Area thrashers in Death Angel now announce the full support package for their upcoming European Tour.

Accompanying the San Francisco based five piece band will be German thrash institution Dew Scented, Italian groove monster Extrema, and Roman progressive force Adimiron. Dates are as follows:

Prosthetic Records has checked in with the following announcement about offering a new sampler for free download:

"It's summer. What better way to celebrate than rocking out to your favorite music? We here at Prosthetic Records want you to have the heaviest, most crushing music on the block, so not only are we giving you a bunch of free songs from recent releases -- including Holy Grail, Scale the Summit, and Shining -- we're also giving you music from albums that aren't even out yet!

"Yep, we're giving you new music from Swedish underground heroes Darkane, the Danish melo-death black brigade Mercenary and Boston grind/punk thrashers Ramming Speed before anyone can even buy it!

"Did we mention it's completely FREE? What are you waiting for? Head over to the Prosthetic Facebook page and get your free digital sampler now!" More...

Dew Scented celebrates 20 years of deadly metal with upcoming anniversary release, "Insurgent," due out May 28th via Prosthetic Records in North America.

Listen to the new song "Confronting Entropy" below. Pre-orders are available at this location.

The cover art for "Insurgent," seen below, was completed by Björn Gooßes of Killustrations.net. "Insurgent" features a mix of new originals, live tracks, and rare covers -- 19 songs and 76 minutes in all. The complete track listing is as follows:

1. Confronting Entropy (5:36)2. Guided By The Dead Light (5:19)3. Sadistic Sinner (4:54) * Originally by Incubus (Brazil)4. Sworn To Obey (Live 2012) (4:05)5. Turn To Ash (Live 2012) (3:02)6. Soul Poison (Live 2012) (3:58)7. Storm Within (Live 2012) (4:02)8. Cities Of The Dead (Live 2012) (4:44)9. Never To Return (Live 2012) (4:13)10. Acts Of Rage (Live 2012) (4:21)11. In Dying Mode (4:20)12. Steady Decline (4:32) * Originally by Prong13. No Spiritual Surrender (2:48) * Originally by Inside Out14. Good Day For A Hanging (4:28) * Originally by Wasted Youth15. The Storm (3:23) * Originally by Judge16. Recall The Pain (1:06)17. The Death Of Common Sense (3:44)18. Slaughterhouse (4:31) * Originally by Powermad19. Superstar Destroyer (2:55) * Originally by Genocide Superstars-------1-3: new songs, 20134-10: live songs, 201211-15: Recorded during the “Icarus” sessions, 201216-19: Recorded during the “Invocation” sessions, 2010 More...

In the light of Dew-Scented's European tour supporting Testament starting this weekend, Metal Blade Records is now launching first details about the band's upcoming anniversary release. The title is "Insurgent" and it will be released May 24th, 2013 in Europe. The label comments:

"Insurgent is a comprehensive 19-track collection including brand-new and rare material with a total running time of 76 minutes, celebrating more than 20 years of restless, deadly Thrash Metal!

"The tracklisting of Insurgent contains 3 brand new songs, 7 new live songs, a total of 7 cover songs and some more. It will be available as limited Digipak CD, Digital Download and the new songs will even be issued as strictly limited 10” vinyl edition! For a first impression of Insurgent we have now launched a live-clip of the song Sworn To Obey, in the version that appears on this special release. Check it out below." More...

German thrashers Dew-Scented have been confirmed as direct support for Testament on their upcoming European tour, which kick off in Italy on March 16th.

Dew-Scented also confirmed the band's participation in the Full Metal Cruise, a week-long voyage also featuring acts such as Kreator, Heaven Shall Burn, Firewind, Sabaton, Gamma Ray and Doro.

The cruise will depart on May 5th from Hamburg and will make stops in Southampton (UK), Le Havre (France) and Amsterdam before returning to Hamburg on May 12th. For further details and ticket information, visit this location.

Dew-Scented has now finished tracking some new studio recordings for a very special anniversary release, due out this spring. More details will be revealed in the coming weeks. More...

Prosthetic Records has released a 14-track digital sampler exclusively on the label's Facebook page here.

Once you "like" the page, you'll be able to download tracks by the likes of Skeletonwitch, Mutilation Rites, Primitive Weapons, and Junius along songs from recent and upcoming releases from Holy Grail, VVisdom, and more. The track listing is as follows:

Dew Scented has posted the following announcement online about supporting Testament on upcoming tour dates:

"Hey thrashers, today we bring you the great news that Dew-Scented has been confirmed as 'special guests' for selected shows of the upcoming 'Dark Roots Of Earth' European tour of Thrash Metal icons Testament. Steel Engraved will be opening and the exact shows with our participation are as follows:

"After the dates with Six Feet Under, the summer festivals and the recent hometown show and awesome party in Walsrode, we now look forward to making this another great run of show in support of the 'Icarus' album, especially since Testament has always been an influential band and personal favourite for the Dew-Scented members!"

It's only a few more days until the new Dew-Scented album, "Icarus", hits European & North American stores. Since July 27/30 marks the release in Europe via Metal Blade Records and July 31 the release in North America via Prosthetic Records, the band is happy to announce that there is a promotional full album stream available starting today.

Dew-Scented comments: "Here it is, at last! We are stoked to be able to present you the full 'Icarus' album to check out! We are truly satisfied with what we achieved on this record and hope you will enjoy the music as much as we do! This is our take on modern, authentic and relentlessly deadly Thrash Metal…it's certainly not for the faint-hearted, but we suppose you weren't expecting anything else by DEW-SCENTED?!"

German thrashers Dew-Scented have unveiled a lyric video for "Storm Within," a new track from their upcoming release “Icarus,” exclusively through MetalSucks. You can check it out at this location.

This marks the third new track that has been posted from the group's ninth album, which will be released in North America on July 31st. Pre-Orders for "Icarus" are available through Prosthetic Records. The track listing is as follows:

Today Dew-Scented has post the second single taken off new album "Icarus." Premiered by Rock Hard magazine Germany, click here to check out "Thrown To The Lions." Dew-Scented vocalist Leif Jensen comments:

“TTTL is among my personal fave-tracks on ‘Icarus’ and one that we all knew right away would become a good addition for our new live-set! This song is viciously straight-forward and comes with some pretty wicked guitar riffing. Lyrically the edge was to portray the truly barbaric bloodlust in ancient times at gladiator fights and the brutality of the so-called ‘damnatio ad bestias’. That’s some of the most extreme punishment in history, especially since it was turned into such a public celebration ritual! It’s definitely a gruesome topic that effortlessly supports the heaviness of the song…and the subliminal tortured screams on the second lead-guitar part are quite intense too!”

"Icarus" will be released as a limited first edition digipak including 3 bonus tracks as well as on vinyl (black and limited coloured versions) on July, 27th/30th via Metal Blade Records in Europe. The track listing is as follows: More...